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Animals From Vegas Show Found Stuffed In Small Boxes Backstage

There were barking dogs packed into carriers, piled on top of one another like cargo, with cats in a similar situation. Pigeons were stuffed into small plastic crates with mostly their feathers, not faces, discernible. Live geese were packed into small black boxes, the only opening facing the wall.

Most notable of all were two goats, sharing a pen so small that they were pressed up against one another with barely any room to move.

"In fact, they are the norm. When animals are carted around to be used for shows at circuses, fairs, festivals and the Las Vegas strip, they are subjected to intense confinement, the noise and chaos of large crowds of people, the lack of opportunity to exercise and irregular access to food and water," she said.

"From what I saw, they were brought out from a room next to the back door of the V Theater where they perform, out to the [backstage] hallway, so they will have an easy access to them between shows," Levi said, adding that there appeared to be no supervision while the animals remained in the back hallway area and that the equipment the animals were stored in looked old.

Levi told The Dodo that the animals did look well-fed, at the very least. "I don't know or think [they were] in the [backstage area] all day, but from what I saw, they were there for at least 2 to 3 hours with breaks [in between performances.]"

I'm only visiting LV and saw the show tonight, as I thought my son would like it. I HOPE YOU CAN GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING WITH THESE ANIMALS!! We were front row and able to see the offside of back stage. First horrifying thing, the goose was waddling off stage and stopped, a stage hand reached out and SNATCHED the goose by the neck, yanking it off stage, NO EXAGGERATION. The white poodle has a significant ear injury and possible ear infection, kept pawing at it. The wire fox terriers seemed to have eye issues, perhaps conjunctivitis. The handling of the cats going into to apartment building was VERY ROUGH. The animals looked mostly healthy otherwise.